Imaginary worlds pervade forager oral tradition
- PMID: 36396401
- DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X21002363
Imaginary worlds pervade forager oral tradition
Abstract
Imaginary worlds recur across hunter-gatherer narrative, suggesting that they are an ancient part of human life: to understand their popularity, we must examine their origins. Hunter-gatherer fictional narratives use various devices to encode factual information. Thus, participation in these invented worlds, born of our evolved ability to engage in pretense, may provide adaptations with information inputs that scaffold their development.
Comment in
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Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens: Ultimate functions, proximate mechanisms, cultural distribution.Behav Brain Sci. 2022 Nov 18;45:e309. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22000048. Behav Brain Sci. 2022. PMID: 36396422
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Why imaginary worlds? The psychological foundations and cultural evolution of fictions with imaginary worlds.Behav Brain Sci. 2021 Jul 8;45:e276. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X21000923. Behav Brain Sci. 2021. PMID: 34233768
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